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la·bel (lāʹbəl)n. 1. An item used to identify something or someone, as a small piece of paper or cloth attached to an article to designate its origin, owner, contents, use, or destination. 2. A descriptive term; an epithet. 3. A distinctive name or trademark identifying a product or manufacturer, especially a recording company. 4. Architecture. A molding over a door or window; a dripstone. 5. Heraldry. A figure in a field consisting of a narrow horizontal bar with several pendants. 6. Chemistry. See tracer.tr.v. la·beled, or la·belled la·bel·ing, or la·bel·ling la·bels or la·bels 1. To attach a label to. 2. To identify or designate with a label; describe or classify: labeled them Yuppies. See Synonyms at mark1. 3. Chemistry. To add a tracer to (a compound). [Middle English, ornamental strip of cloth, from Old French, probably of Germanic origin.] laʹbel·er or laʹbel·ler n.
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